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Rafael S. Ducos, M.D.

Education
Teaching Appointments
Hospital Appointments
Certification and Licensure
Professional Societies
Publications

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Name: Rafael Sanchez Ducos, M.D.
Office Address: Department of Pediatrics, Box SL-37
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana 70112
(504) 842-5200, (504) 842-5647 fax
1430 Tulane Ave., Box SL-37, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699 Department of Pediatrics, rducos@tmcpop.tmc.tulane.edu
Education:
1954 Baccalaureate in Biology, University of Chile
1960 Licentiate in Medicine, University of Chile School of Medicine
1961 M.D., University of Chile School of Medicine

Postgraduate Training and Fellowship Appointments:
1961-1962 Pediatric Internship, University of Chile School of Medicine, Calvo Mackenna Hospital, Santiago, Chile
1962-1964 Pediatric Residency, University of Chile School of Medicine, Calvo Mackenna Hospital, Santiago, Chile
1968-1969 Visiting Fellow in Pediatric Hematology, Eppendorf University School of Medicine, Hamburg, West Germany
1973-1974 Research Associate, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Cancer Biology Section, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
1974-1976 Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellow Washington University and Children's Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
Teaching Appointments:
1966-1968 Instructor in Pediatrics, University of Chile School of Medicine
1969-1973 Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Hematology Catholic University School of Medicine, Santiago, Chile
1975-1976 Instructor in Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
1976-1979 Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Louisiana State University Medical School
1979-1987 Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Louisiana State University Medical School
1987-1988 Professor of Pediatrics, Louisiana State University Medical School
1976-1988 Head, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Section, Louisiana State University Medical School
1977-1988 Director of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Children's Hospital of New Orleans
1987-1989 Chairman of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of New Orleans
1988-1993 Co-Director of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Children's Hospital of New Orleans
1988-present Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Tulane Medical School

Other Teaching Appointments and Honors:
July 1978 Invited lecturer to the Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Update Course. Department of Pediatrics, Catholic University School of Medicine, Santiago, Chile
July 1982 Invited lecturer to the first meeting of the Chilean Pediatric Oncology Group
September 1982 Invited speaker to the Sickle Cell Disease Symposium: "Hepatic Complications of Sickle Cell Disease in Children." New Orleans, Louisiana
January 1983 Invited speaker to the "Lucas Sierra Symposium on Advances in Oncology." Viña del Mar, Chile
March 1985 Invited speaker to the Surgery Committee Session of the Pediatric Oncology Group meeting: "The use of Needle Biopsy and Pre-operative Chemotherapy in Massive Unresectable Wilms' Tumor." Orlando, Florida
May 1985 Program director, "Cancer in Children," National Symposium sponsored by Children's Hospital and LSU: "Advances in Pediatric Solid Tumors," and "Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatric and Cancer."
March 1986 Invited speaker to Pediatric Grand Rounds, Hurley Medical Center, Flint, Michigan
April 1986 Invited speaker to the National Meeting of HLA Bone Marrow Donor Registries, New Orleans, Louisiana: "The Establishment of the Louisiana HLA Registry Foundation."
November 1986 Invited guest speaker to the Post-Graduate Pediatric Hematology course, INTA (Chilean Institute of Food Technology). Santiago, Chile.
November 1986 Invited guest speaker to the Workshop on Neutropenia, Chilean Society of Hematology, Santiago, Chile.
November 1989 Invited guest speaker, Chilean Pediatric Society, Viña del Mar, Chile
  1. "Fever and Neutropenia in Cancer Patients"
  2. "Oncologic Emergencies in Children"
April 1991 Invited guest speaker, "Pediatrics and All that Jazz" course, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, Louisiana "Evaluation of Anemias in Children."
October 1991 Course co-director: "The Primary Care of the Hispanic-American Patient". Hispanic-American Medical Association of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana
October 1991 Invited guest to the Latin American Society of Pediatric Research meeting, Viña del Mar, Chile
September 1992 Co-Chairman, Track I: Clinical Medicine and Biomedical Research, VII Hispanic Medical Congress, New Orleans, Louisiana
November 1993 Review, Ad Hoc Special Review Committee, National Cancer Institute, Grants Review Branch, Washington, D.C.
June 11, 1994 Invited speaker, Grand Rounds, Department of Pediatrics, University of South Alabama: "Purpuric Syndromes in Children.
August 12-15, 1994 invited speaker, Post-graduate course: Pediatric Update. Lectures: "Purpuric Syndrome in Children", "Evaluation of Lymphadenopathies in Children", "Supportive Care of the Pediatric Patient with Cancer." Santiago, Chile
December 5, 1994 Honored by the Ronald McDonald House of New Orleans with the "Loving Award"
October 17-19, 1995 Invited speaker to the Congress of the Colombian Society of Hematology and Oncology. Lectures in: Purpuric syndrome in children, neuroblastoma, brain tumors.
Hospital Appointments:
1964-1966 Staff Pediatrician, Deformes Hospital, Valparaiso, Chile
Two years pediatric rotation required by the government of Chile after three years of training in pediatrics.
1966-1968 Staff Pediatrician and Hematologist, Arriaran University Hospital, Santiago, Chile
1969-1973 Staff Pediatrician and Hematologist, Martinez de Ferrari University Hospital, Santiago, Chile
1976-1988 Visiting Physician, Charity Hospital of New Orleans
1976-1988 Attending Staff, Director of Hematology-Oncology, Children's Hospital of New Orleans
1978-present Consultant, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Southern Baptist Hospital of New Orleans
1980-1988 Consultant, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Ochsner Foundation Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana
1985-present Consultant, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Meadowcrest Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana
1988-present Consultant, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, East Jefferson Hospital, Metairie, Louisiana
1988-present Full-time staff, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, Louisiana
Certification and Licensure:
1961 Chilean College of Physicians Certification #4508
1965 ECGMG Certification #095-374-5
1975 Permanent Missouri Licensure (FLEX) #35485
1976 Louisiana State Licensure #3756
American Board of Pediatrics #19977
1978 Pediatric Hematology-Oncology #332
Membership in Professional Societies:
Member, Chilean Pediatric Society
Member, Chilean Hematology Society
Member, Chilean Pediatric Hematology Society
Member, Louisiana State Medical Society
Member, The Greater New Orleans Pediatric Society
Member, The Southern Society for Pediatric Research
Member, American Society of Clinical Oncology
Member, Pediatric Oncology Group
Principal Investigator, Children's Hospital, Ochsner Clinic CCOP
Member of the Board, Hispanic American Medical Association of Louisiana, 1991-1993

Other Memberships:
Member and Founder of the Medical Advisory Committee, Louisiana HLA Registry Foundation
Member of the Hispanic American Medical Association of Louisiana (HAMAL)
Publications
  1. Winter A, Taboada H, Frias J, Ducos R, Galecio R. Thrombocytopenic purpura of the newborn, Rev Chile Pediatr 35:662, 1964
  2. Winter A, Sosa C, Ducos R, Jarpa S. Severe acid-base and electrolyte disturbances in acute diarrhea in infants. Rev Chile Pediatr 35:233, 1964
  3. Winter A, Taboada H, Schuh W, Sosa C, Ducos R. Leukemia in children. Rev Chile Pediatr 35:1135, 1964
  4. Winter A, Taboada H, Sosa C, Ducos R. Purpuras in children. Rev Sangre (Spain) 10:289, 1965, and Rev Chile Pediatr 35:110, 1965
  5. Ducos R, Sosa C, Winter A, Taboada H. Lymphomas in children. Sangre 10:93, 1965, and Rev Chile Pediatr 36:173, 1965
  6. Winter A, Schuh W, Taboada H, Ducos R, Sosa C. Occult blood loss in iron deficiency anemia. Sangre 10:283, 1965, and Rev Chile Pediatr 36:177, 1965
  7. Ducos R, Jaeger H, Puga F, Doberta A, Allesandri A. Feochromocytoma: Clinical case in a child. Rev Chile Pediatr 35:29, 1965
  8. Ducos R, Gonzolez F, Coutreros C. Purpura fulminans. Rev Chile Pediatr 38:194, 1967
  9. Taboada H, Ducos R, Winter A. Purpuric syndrome in severe infant malnutrition. Rev Chile Pediatr 39:95, 1968
  10. Ducos R, Taboada H, Winter A, Flores H. Erythrocyte enzymes: Studies in normal children and in hemolytic anemias. Rev Chile Pediatr 39:381, 1968
  11. Ducos R. Congenital erythrocyte enzyme defects: A review. Rev Chile Pediatr 39:314, 1968
  12. Winter A, Taboada H, Ducos R, Norambueua N, Vera S. Frequency of sideropenia and anemia in the Chilean infant. Rev Chile Pediatr 41:1035, 1968.
  13. Taboada H, Ducos R, Winter A. Hydantoinic lymphadenopathy: Its relation with autoimmune diseases and lymphomas. Rev Chile Pediatr 42:415, 1971
  14. Ducos R, Valeriote F. Quantitation of the immune rejection of allotransplanted AKR leukemic cells. Transplantation 21:279-281, 1976
  15. Ragab AH, Ducos R, Crist W. Granulopoiesis in osteopetrosis. J Pediatr 87:422-424, 1975.
  16. Crist W, Ragab AH, Ducos R, Chu J. Chemotherapy of childhood medulloblastoma. Am J Dis Child 130:639-642, 1976
  17. Ducos R. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children: Diagnosis and management. Child Hosp Bull 2:2-7, 1976
  18. Crist W, Ragab AH, Ducos R. Lymphoblastic conversion of chronic myelogenous leukemia. Pediatr 61:560-563, 1978
  19. Ducos R, Donoso J, Vietti T, et al. Sedimentation vs cytocentrifugation in the cytologic study of craniospinal fluid. Cancer 43:1479-82
  20. Ducos R, Zusman J, Smith B, et al. Emergencies in sickle cell anemia in children. J La State Med Soc 132:71-73, 1980
  21. Kumar P, Marks CH, Ducos R, Koblin D, Leech S. Peripheral T cells in renal transplantation: A statistical analysis. Dialysis and Transplantation 10:416, 1981
  22. Ducos R, Donoso J, Weickhardt U, Vietti T. Sedimentation vs centrifugation in the cytologic study of craniospinal fluid: Summary and comments of previously published paper (Cancer 43:1479). Yearbook of Cancer, Yearbook Medical Publishers, Inc., Chicago, p.438-440, 1980
  23. Yang YM, Welsh RA, Brown J, Crapanzano J, Ducos R. Irradiation as the initial therapy for metastatic anaplastic dysgerminoma. South Med J 76:395-397, 1983.
  24. Bryan CF, Leech S, Ducos R, Edward CQ, Kushner JP, Skolnick MH, Bozelka B, Linn JC, Gaumer R. Thermastable erythrocyte rosette-forming lymphocytes in hereditary hemochromatosis: Identification in peripheral blood. J Clin Immunol 4(2), 1984
  25. Warrier RP, Ducos R, Yu L, Gaumer R. Congenital leukemia: Cytochemical immunology and function characteristics. Proceedings of the International Society of Hematology, Buenos Aires, September 1984. Accepted for publication in South Med J December 1984
  26. Warrier RP, Ducos R, Azeemuddin S, Ruff A. Aeromonas infections in immunocompromised hosts. Indian J Pediatr 51:412, 1984
  27. Ducos R, Warrier RP, Mackenzie F, Evans B. Ectopic immature renal tissue in an infant with undescended testes. Accepted for publication in Am J Pediatr Hematol Oncol
  28. Warrier RP, Ducos R. Vincristine toxicity (Letter to editor). Lancet 1(8435)980,1985
  29. Yang YN, Ducos R, Rosenberg A, Catrou P, et al. Cobalamin malabsorption in three siblings due to an abnormal intrinsic factor that is markedly susceptible to acid and proteolysis. J Clin Invest 76:2057-2065, 1985
  30. Ducos R. "Abdominal masses in children" in Pediatrics: A Problem-Oriented Approach. Edited by Vipul Mankad, M.D. Medical Examination Publishing, Inc. Chapter 12, p.178-184, 1986
  31. Ducos R, Madyastha P, Warrier RP, Glassman AB, Shirley LR. Neutrophil agglutinins in idiopathic chronic neutropenia of early childhood. Am J of Dis Child 150:65-68, 1986
  32. Warrier RP, Ducos R, Yu L. Acute chest syndrome in sickle cell disease (Letter to editor). J Pediatr 109:731, 1986.
  33. Ducos R, Warrier RP, Arensman R, Mackenzie F, Smith J, Falterman K. Needle biopsy and preoperative chemotherapy of bilateral and massive unilateral Wilms' tumor. Pediatr Surg Int (1987) 2:42-45
  34. Yu L, Kuvibidila S, Warrier RP, Ducos R. Validity of pre-albumin in the assessment of mild-moderate malnutrition in children with leukemia. Blood 70(5):707, 1987.
  35. Yu L, Kuvibidila S, Warrier RP, Ducos R. Nutritional assessment of children with cancer. J Gastronterol. Submitted December 1988.
  36. Yu L, Kuvibidila S, Warrier RP, Ducos R. Anthropometry and plasma proteins in evaluation of nutritional status in pediatric oncology. Clin Res 36(1):70A, 1988
  37. Yu L, Warrier RP, Gaumer R, Ducos R. Actinomycin-induced immune thrombocytopenia. Clin Pediatr (Phila) 29(3):196, 1990
  38. Yu L, Warrier RP, Ducos R. Pernicious anemia in association with juvenile diabetes mellitus: A case report. J La State Med Soc 141(2):33, 1989
  39. Yu L, Craver R, Baliga M, Ducos R, Warrier R, Ward K, Nadell J. Isolated CNS involvement in Ewing's sarcoma. Med Pediatr Oncol 18(5):354-358, 1990
  40. Nitschke R, Smith EI, Altshuler G, Altmiller D, Shuster J, Green A, Castleberry R, Hayes F, Golembe B, Ducos R. Post-operative treatment of non-metastatic visible residual neuroblastoma: A pediatric oncology group study. J Clin Oncol 9(7):1181-1189, 1991
  41. Weiner M, Leventhal B, Cantor A, Wimmer R, Berry D, Cook B, Ducos R. Gallium-67 scans as an adjunct to computed tomography scans for the assessment of a residual mediastinal mass in pediatric patients with Hodgkin's disease. Cancer 68:2478, December 1991
  42. Kellie SJ, Hayes FA, Bowman L, Kovnar EH, Langston J, Jenkins JJ 3d, Pao WJ, Ducos R, Green AA. Primary extracranial neuroblastoma with central nervous system metastases: Characterization by clinicopathologic findings and neuroimaging. Cancer 68:1999, 1991
  43. Yu LC, Kuvibidila S, Ducos R, Warrier RP: Nutritional status of children with leukemia. Med Pediatr Oncol 22:73-77, 1994
  44. McGuire PM, Merritt CR, Ducos R: Ultrasonography of primary renal lymphoma in a child. J Ultrasound Med 15(6):479-81, 1996

Abstracts

  1. Winter A, Taboada H, Sosa C, Ducos R. Purpuras in children. Meeting of the Chilean Society of Hematology, November 1964 (presented)
  2. Ducos R, Sosa C, Winter A, Taboada H. Lymphomas in children. Meeting of the Chilean Society of Hematology, November 1964 (presented)
  3. Winter A, Schuh W, Taboada H, Ducos R, Sosa C. Occult blood loss in iron deficiency anemia. Meeting of the Chilean Society of Hematology, November 1964 (presented)
  4. Taboada H, Ducos R, Winter A. Purpuric syndrome in severe infant malnutrition. Meeting of the Argentine Society of Hematology, November 1966. Proceedings p. 576 (presented)
  5. Taboada H, Ducos R, Winter A. Iron deficiency anemia in malabsorption syndrome. Meeting of the Argentine Society of Hematology, November 1966. Acta p. 576, Proceedings p. 916 (presented)
  6. Taboada H, Ducos R, Winter A. Reticuloendotheliosis in children. Meeting of the Argentine Society of Hematology, November 1966. Proceedings p.916 (presented)
  7. Ducos R, Taboada H, Winter A, Flores H. Congenital nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia with erythrocite enzyme defects. Meeting of the Latin American Society of Pediatric Investigation, Brazil, November 1967 (presented)
  8. Taboada H, Ducos R, Winter A. Reticuloendotheliosis: Mother-infant chimerism? Meeting of the Chilean Society of Hematology, November, 1967 (presented)
  9. Ducos R, Taboada H, Winter A, Flores H. Erythrocyte enzymes: Studies in normal children and in hemolytic anemias. Meeting of the Society of Hematology, 1967 (presented)
  10. Winter A, Taboada H, Ducos R, Norambueua N, Vera S. Frequency of sideropenia and anemia in the Chilean infant. Meeting of the Latin American Society of Pediatric Investigation, Chile, November 1969 (presented)
  11. Taboada H, Ducos R, Winter A. Hydantoinic lymphadenopathy: Its relation with autoimmune diseases and lymphomas. Meeting of the Argentine Society of Lymph Node Diseases, 1970 (presented)
  12. Lagormarsino E, Ducos R, Taboada H, Passalocqua H. Idiopathic pulmonary hemsiderosis with a positive direct coombs. Meeting of the Chilean Society of Pediatrics, May 1973 (presented)
  13. Santander D, Taboada H, Ducos R. Megablastic anemia in children. Meeting of the Chilean Society of Pediatrics, May 1973 (presented)
  14. Ducos R, Valeriote F. Quantitation of the immune rejection of allotransplanted AKR leukemic cells. AACR meeting, San Diego, May 1975. Proceedings, Vol. 16, p. 103.
  15. Crist W, Ragab AH, Ducos R. Lymphoid characteristics of leukemic cells in a child with CML in blastic crisis. APS-SPR meeting, St. Louis, April 1975. Proceedings, Ped Res 8, 1975
  16. Kumar P, LaMarche M, Alspaugh D, Kodlin F, Ducos R, Leech S. Acute irreversible renal allograft rejection. Clin Res, abs., p.748A, December 1979.
  17. Yang Y, Ducos R, Podell ER, Rosenberg A, Catrou P, Allen RH. Congenital pernicious anemia in three siblings due to an abnormal intrinsic factor that does not bind cobalamine. Eighteenth Congress ISH and ASH, Montreal, August 1980. Proceedings p. 407 (presented)
  18. Bahna SL, Ducos R, Plauche WC, Kaushik SP, Prather B, Howes RF, DeJomgh DS, Gohd RS. Fetal liver transplant of infant with sever combined immunodeficiency. Clin Res 28:857, abs., 1980
  19. Prather B, Bahna SL, Ducos R. Circulating Eosinophils in twins. Clin Res 28:859, abs., 1980.
  20. Kumar P, Ducos R, Castrillo S, Marks CH, Leech S. Thermostable erythrocyte rosette forming cells in the early diagnosis of acute renal allograft rejection. Meeting of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Chicago, 1981
  21. Levine JS, Yang YN, Ducos R, Rosenberg A, Cantrou P, Podell E, Allen R. Juvenile pernicious anemia due to an abnormal intrinsic factor that is markedly susceptible to acid and proteolysis. Gastroenterol 80:1210, abs., 1981
  22. Bryan CF, Edwards CO, Kushner JP, Ducos R, Leech S. Thermostable erythrocyte rosettes (TE-R) in idiopathic hemochromatosis. Federation Proceedings 14:819, abs. March 1982
  23. Ducos R, Medyastha P, Warrier RP. Autoimmune neutropenia in children. Proceedings of the International Society of Hematology, Buenos Aires, September 1984 (presented)
  24. Madyastha PR, Glassman AB, Reed S, Ducos R, Warrier RP. Neutrophil agglutinins in chronic idiopathic neutropenia of early childhood. Abs. presented, Association of Clinical Scientists spring meeting, Newport, Rhode Island, May 1985
  25. Warrier RP, Ducos R, Gaumer R, Yu L. Congenital leukemia: Cytochemical, immunological and functional studies. Abs. No. 464, International Society of Hematology meeting, Buenos Aires, September 1984
  26. Madyastha PR, Glassman AB, LaVia MF, Ducos R, Shirley R, Koger B. Idiopathic autoimmune neutropenia of early childhood: Normal phenotype expression of lymphocytes and their subsets. Proceedings of the American Society of Hematology meeting, abs. 203, p.79A, New Orleans, December 1985
  27. Warrier RP, Tan T, Todd MJ, Spies J, Ducos R. Acute vincristine neurotoxicity: Review of experience at Children's Hospital of New Orleans. XIII International Congress of Pediatrics, Abstract 602 presented, Honolulu, July 1986
  28. Warrier RP, Falterman K, Tan T, Headrick A, Todd MJ, Spies J, Ducos R. Infections associated with Hickman catheters in children: Role of neutropenia and personality traits of mothers. XIII International Congress of Pediatrics, abstract 604 presented, Honolulu, July 1986
  29. Ducos R, Warrier RP, Arensman R, Mackenzie F, Smith J, Falterman K. Needle biopsy and pre-operative chemotherapy in massive Wilms' tumor. XIII International Congress of Pediatrics, abstract 603 presented, Honolulu, July 1986
  30. Ducos R. Presentation on bone marrow transplantation at Southern Baptist Medicine Conference, New Orleans, December 12, 1986
  31. Zuniga S, Warrier RP, Yu L, Falterman KP, Ducos R. Comparative study of Hickman catheters vs Porta-Cath in children with malignancies. Presented to SSPR, New Orleans, January 1987. Clin Res 35(1):65A, 1987
  32. Yu L, Gaumer R, Warrier RP, Ducos R. Actinomycin-induced immune thrombocytopenia: Therapy with high-doe IV IgG. Presented to SSPR, New Orleans, January 1987. Clin Res 35(1):65A, 1987
  33. Davuluri M, Lafair S, Warrier RP, Nadell J, Troendle J, Ducos R. Audiological evaluation of children with brain tumors receiving cisplatinum. Presented to SSPR, New Orleans, January 1987. Clin Res 35(1):74A, 1987
  34. Tsai L, Levine S, Warrier RP, Harris J, Ducos R. Sleep apnea studies in children with sickle cell. Presented to SSPR, New Orleans, January 1987. Clin Res 35(1):73A, 1987.
  35. Kellie SJ, Hayes FA, Green AA, Ducos R, et al. Primary extracranial neuroblastoma involving the central nervous system and leptomeninges: A clinicopathologic and neuroimaging study. Presented to AACR, May 1989.

Grant Support

  1. Ochsner Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP) grant: Participation in the Pediatric Oncology Group (research base)

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